Monday, July 20, 2009

AIRTIME ROBBERY

The smart way to do business is to steal, is it? I call it a large scale estafa when millions of users unwittingly are being robbed with their eyes wide open. An example like in this instant case is when the expiration time of sim loads just disappear or shortened by the telecommunication companies acting as servers; this is stealing, plain and simple. I presume the people in the national telecommunication commission are receiving a rebate of their airtime loss, since there was no or unsatisfactory action whatsoever to curb these Mal practices of the rich telecoms companies.It has been for many years until now. Their technical capability to monitor compliance is ever doubtful.
Just imagine one million users who bought loads worth one hundred pesos, before it is all used up, suddenly there appears a message that sending has failed or a voice recording informing the cell phone owner that there is not enough balance left. But honest to goodness I for one knew I have still twenty five pesos left and I believe others who are similarly situated have the same amount lost in thin air too. Those balance that were taken if totaled can come up to roughly twenty-five million in just a few seconds multiply that in repetitions and you get ten to twelve digits in cash, again multiply it to seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years. Surely you will lose tract of the figures. Literally it’s raining money at the main offices of these telecoms companies and they are getting away with it. Probably the national telecoms is helping them knowingly or unknowingly. The people keep spending more on these communication needs while sacrificing others that ought to be given equal attention. These acts of the telecoms companies is an economic sabotage that must be dealt with, wise or otherwise.

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